Top of board showing destroyed SMD capacitors and inductors
Closeup of SMD parts
Bottom of board showing cracked IC
Closeup of burned IC
This started as a burning smell and extreme heat coming from the DVD drive, and ended up with what you see above. The PC power supply that powered the computer this drive was in failed some months after. Credit: stsm.
A simple analog sequencer referred to as a baby 10 (step) sequencer is shown with a ICM7555IPA 555 timer cracked down the middle. Credit:
A spilled coke spilled over a laptop motherboard and fried the voltage regulator. Credit: http://www.badfirmware.org/
Lightning struck the cable line on this cable modem. Damage shown is part of the PHY, along with damage not visible to two of the resistors that came from the ethernet port. Credit: http://www.kevtris.org/